"Uytt' Hantwerpen, inde Druckery vande Almanacken des jaers 1612". First edition, small 4to. Decorative fully engraved title print, (32) pp. Rare First Edition of this political pamphlet. Though anonymously published, it commonly accepted that he author was Willem Meerman, a seafaring man. In 1612, the year this pamphlet was published, Meerman embarked on a voyage to America, from which he never returned. In this pamplet, Meerman uses maritime expressions as an allegory on the political situation in Holland. The pamphlet is written in a clear and witty style. It attacks the protestant clergy in Holland as being little better than their Catholic predecessors. Hence the title, which translates as "the old game". The illustrated titlepage print shows prince Maurits, seated at a table with seven other gentlemen. He holds a stick, a man with a head shaped like church pulls at the other end of the stick. At the front of the scene, several sailors are approaching and watch the scene in surprise. At the foot of the title are the words "Eij Maet, siet is 't lant vol gecken? Noom wil mijn Heer de stock onttrecken". Very good copy, in a later hardcover blue boards. Small stamp on bottom of the titlepage. Rare. In the same year 1612 another edition was issued, with the extended title "Comoedia Vetus, of anders ghenoemt Het Bootsmanspraetjen". The addition "bootmans praetjen" stuck and came back in later editions, which were issued well into the 18th century. Tiele 1049; Waller 1178; Muller Cat. of Books on America (1872) no. 959. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

London: Printed By Richard Field. 1612. Hardcover. Recent full calf by Maltbys of Oxford with gilt decoration to spine and contrasting spine label bearing gilt titles, bound without initial blank (A1), lower outer corners of title & following eleven leaves slightly torn and repaired, leaves D5 & D6 with small hole with loss of a a few letters, leaf S with closed tear from upper margin extending into text with no loss, bound without pp553-564 (Bbb-Bbb6), some dampstaining throughout, separate title page (p.1105) for "The Lives of Epaminondas" dated 1610, wood cut portrait illsutrations, decorative initials, head & tail pieces. , Sir Thomas North (1535 - 1603) was the younger son of Edward North, first Baron North. Educated at Cambridge, he entered Lincoln's Inn in 1556 but was never called to the Bar and one can surmise that he had little time for his studies there as his first book, a translation of Bishop Antonio de Guevara's 'The Diall of Princes' was published in 1557. In 1573 North accompanied his brother, who had been appointed ambassador to the French court, to Lyons. It seems likely that North's translation of Plutarch has its roots in that journey, the translation being based on the third edition of Amyot's translation which was published in Lausanne in 1574. Samuel Johnson asserted that Shakespeare had read and was familiar with North's translation of Plutarch. This familiarity may have come about because at the time the printer Richard Field was preparing a 1595 edition of North's translation he was also printing Shakespeare's &
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London Thomas Purfoot 1612 - (1612), small 4to in eights, approximately 180 x 125 mm, 7 x 5 inches, title within patterned border, small printer's device, 2 large woodcut initials, an historiated initial to each book, printed in black letter, leaves: [11 of 12], 196, initial blank leaf is missing, collation: 4 (- 1), A-2B8, 2C4, bound in modern full calf, raised bands to spine, gilt lettered red morocco label, date at foot of spine, new endpapers. Spine very slightly faded, a couple of small light scratches to covers, title page and final page laid down on old paper, title page browned, slightly damaged near lower edge with loss of date on imprint, tip of top corner missing, upper margin partly trimmed, some top and fore-edge margins trimmed within without loss, a couple of tiny repairs to inner margin of 3, 2 more to fore-edge margin of 4, margins of early pages slightly thumbed, small light stain to margins of first few pages, occasional very small stain on text, no loss of legibility, small ownership inscription dated 1677 on L6v below last line of Book 6, small ink note in margin of M2r and T6r, small neat repair to lower blank corner of Cc3, another to blank corner of Cc4, 2 small holes in Cc4, 1 with loss of about 10 words of text on recto (reverse blank), and the other with loss of probably 1 word from the short line below the last line of text, last 2 pages lightly soiled. A good copy. This translation first published in 1565. Arthur Golding (circa 1536  1606) translated more than 30 works from Latin into English. While primarily remembered today for his trans
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London, Thomas Purfoot, (1612).. (1612), small 4to in eights, approximately 180 x 125 mm, 7 x 5 inches, title within patterned border, small printer's device, 2 large woodcut initials, an historiated initial to each book, printed in black letter, leaves: [11 of 12], 196, initial blank leaf is missing, collation: ¶4 (-¶1), A-2B8, 2C4, bound in modern full calf, raised bands to spine, gilt lettered red morocco label, date at foot of spine, new endpapers. Spine very slightly faded, a couple of small light scratches to covers, title page and final page laid down on old paper, title page browned, slightly damaged near lower edge with loss of date on imprint, tip of top corner missing, upper margin partly trimmed, some top and fore-edge margins trimmed within without loss, a couple of tiny repairs to inner margin of ¶3, 2 more to fore-edge margin of ¶4, margins of early pages slightly thumbed, small light stain to margins of first few pages, occasional very small stain on text, no loss of legibility, small ownership inscription dated 1677 on L6v below last line of Book 6, small ink note in margin of M2r and T6r, small neat repair to lower blank corner of Cc3, another to blank corner of Cc4, 2 small holes in Cc4, 1 with loss of about 10 words of text on recto (reverse blank), and the other with loss of probably 1 word from the short line below the last line of text, last 2 pages lightly soiled. A good copy. This translation first published in 1565. Arthur Golding (circa 1536  1606) translated more than 30 works from Latin into English. While primarily remembered today fo
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Frankfurt: Anthonium Kempner, 1612. FIRST EDITION. 387 x 260 mm. (15 1/4 x 10 1/4"). Part I: [21] leaves (including the engraved title, the last leaf blank) plus plates; Part II: [1] leaf (title page) plus plates, followed by a blank leaf (not mentioned by Hunt). Two parts in one volume. FIRST EDITION. Pleasant contemporary mottled calf, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with scrolling cornerpieces, intricate central fleurons of martagon lilies, this design mirrored by lilies in the center of the border on either side and enclosed by a lozenge of tiny star and flower stamps, rebacked in the 20th century (with a lighter colored calf), preserving much of the original spine (but the top compartment and half the second compartment, with titling, now blank). WITH 110 FINE BOTANICAL PLATES: 67 in part I depicting flowers grown from bulbs, 43 in part II depicting flowers with fibrous roots, as well as exotic plants, fruits, and fragrant trees (plate 33 misbound after plate 39), engraved title page, portrait. A preliminary leaf consisting of a half-leaf containing printed Latin text of planting instructions and with a handwritten translation in French below it on a tipped-on half leaf, 37 plates (mostly in part II) with the common French name of the plant added in a (hardly noticeable) small, neat early (17th century?) hand. Nissen 1920; Pritzel 9073; Hunt 196; Tomasi, "An Oak Spring Flora," pp. 42-46. Corners rather rubbed, covers pitted (as always with early mottled calf), but the binding completely solid and with pleasing original elements. Remargining (with modern paper
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Frankfurt, Germany.. Ca. 1612.. Engraving with handcolor, image 13 1/2 x 8 inches. Very good condition. Conservation matted. From Emanuel Sweert's Florilegium, first issued in 1612, with five subsequent editions. "Emanuel Sweert, a Dutch florist, was at one time Praefectus of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II, and it was at his behest that the work was produced. Although it did not contain prices it also served as a catalogue of plants offered for sale by Sweert at the Frankfurt Fair." (de Belder catalogue). The intaglio processes of engraving and etching had only recently been applied to botanical illustration, allowing for a finer, more spontaneous line than the woodcut. Pictured are a number of varieties of the Amaryllis family. .

Lugdani, [i.e. Lyon]: apud viduam Antonii de Harsy, 1612. First Casaubon Edition. Folio. [48], 490, 489-702, [2], 705-811pp, [49]. A fine, unpressed copy in late seventeenth-century English panelled calf, spine richly gilt, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece with gilt detailing. lightly rubbbed, with some splitting to upper joint, bumping to corners. A handful of minute wormholes to darkened spine. Some surface loss to boards. Graham Pollard's copy, with his pencilled note to FEP: 'possibly by the spaniel binder, witness the sprigs of leaves to spine and the rolls round the panel, but comparison with the five positively identified 'Spaniel Binder' examples held by the British Library enables no positive identification. Eighteenth century armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Seabright to FEP, neat annotation to title identifying Casaubon as 'auctour damnatus'. The Third Century Hellenist Athenaeus of Naucratis' Deipnosophists roughly translates as the Banquet of the Learned, it examines the world of the leisure classes in the Roman Empire in fifteen books and is rich source for the study of classical recipes, wine, music, literary gossip and sexual mores. Books XII-XIII include a particularly candid discussion of homosexuality. Not only is this present volume with the extensive notes of classicist Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) considered the definitive edition of the Deipnosophists, but also the magnum opus of Casaubon himself.

[London:] Printed [by W. Jaggard] for John Jaggard,, 1612. nor brought under obedience of the crowne of England, untill the beginning of his Majesties happie raigne. Quarto (184 × 138 mm). Seventeenth-century mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label. Complete with the initial leaf, blank except for signature-mark "A"; in this copy the last page is blank some copies, presumably later issues, have errata printed on 2O2v. Armorial bookplate of J. B. Roberts. Some restoration to spine and at head of rear cover, a very good copy, clean and well-margined. First edition; rare in commerce. As part of the regime consolidating English rule following the defeat of Tyrone's rebel forces, Sir John Davies's career in Ireland spanned 16 years' service, first as Solicitor-General, 16036, then as Attorney-General, 160619. More than any other English administrator, Davies realised that military force in itself was not an adequate basis for pacification of the newly conquered kingdom. "Davies proposed the universal application of English law to the whole of Ireland in a way that would facilitate assimilation of the Gaelic polity and reduce the influence of the Old English descendants of the earlier Anglo-Norman settlements" (Hans S. Pawlisch, ed., Sir John Davies and the Conquest of Ireland: A Study in Legal Imperialism, Cambridge UP, 2002).

LONDON: Thomas Purfoot, 1612 An extremely rare early copy of this influential translation of Ovid's work, first published in 1567. Arthur Golding's translation is said to give full range to the power of Ovid's work and was read by Shakespeare among many others. In what appears to be the original vellum wraps. The vellum has some old hand writing on the inside of both covers. With title page, dedication to Robert Earle of Leicester by Arthur Golding, Note to the Reader, and the Fifteene Bookes - each with its own header.With decorative headpieces and initial capitals. Pages 9-12, 185-193, and 196 (pages numbered on one side only) are in facsmile provided by the British Library. The title page and first dedication page have been repaired. The vellum binding has had expert repair to the base of the spine and leather thongs reattached. It shows wear but is complete and sound. Internally there is occasional ink annotation, some browning to page edges and some pages, and occasional brown spotting.Size 18.4 x 15 cms. 196 leaves. Supplied in hand made protective card box. Please enquire if you would like additional images.

, 1612. Large engraved map in two compartments. Damage to lower left edge only. Lightly browned. Ink erosion of paper at top left in leaves of cartouche. Large margins. 19.5 x 14" Upper half shows state of Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico while lower half shows Caribbean islands.

Florence: Cosimo Giunti, 1612. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. (2) ff, 77 pp, (1), (1) f with printer's emblem. Bound with: [GALILEI, Galileo & CASTELLI, Benedetto]. Risposta alle Opposizioni del S. Lodovico delle Colombe, e del S. Vincenzo di Grazia... Florence, Cosimo Giunti, 1615. (1) ff, (2), 319 [ie 335] pp with numerous mispaginations, (5) including printer's emblem. Bound in contemporary limp vellum with MS title on spine, "Galileo Galilei Opera', internally very fresh, an excellent copy in all respects. A remarkable pairing of two Galileana bound together by a contemporary follower of the power struggle between Galileo and the Aristotelians. The second augmented edition of Galileo's classic on hydrostatics, published the same year within months of the first edition, represents his first published work in physics (Drake, p. 179). The Discorso is hailed by historians of science as having united for the first time two previously separate disciplines: statics and dynamics, resulting in a new science of mechanics, containing his first published statements on the concept of moment, an abstract concept of physical force which has been shown to have dominated his early physical thinking, and contains several first announcements concerning some of his great astronomical discoveries relating to sunspots, the triple form of Saturn, and the phases of Venus. The present 2nd edition contains significant additional text concerning this important concept. The Risposta, one of the scarcest of
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Joannis Jacobi Hennei, Hanover, 1612. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. A seminal five language dictionary the subject of an important 1637 London abridgment by William Alabaster. Full early calf rebacked and re-cornered in acid calf early on; added endpapers with notes on them; spine label and bookplate from seminary library. Front hinge starting but still intact - binding firm. 8 leaves, 1992 numbered columns, 76 leaves. Repair to verso of title page which is torn in the gutter, scattered foxing, discoloration, staining and offsetting but generally clean and unmarked.Graesse VI, 305. Size: Folio. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Religion & Theology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 041197. . This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Frankfurt am Main, Impendio Rulandiorum, typis Richterianis, 1612. 4to. (72),+ 711 pp. Titel printed in red and black. Contemporary vellum. Owner's inscription by a Valentino B..., in Wismar 1674, and with the owner's signature of Wattrang. VD17 547:691398Q. Roberto Maranta (1490-c. 1530) was an italian jurisprudence. His famous "Tractatus de ordine iudiciorum o Speculum aureum" was originally published posthumously in 1540. In the present editions are also "Dissertations quaestionum legalium ..." by Maranta and "Practica iudiciaria canonica, & civilis, &c. cum differentiis iuris Caesarei, pontificii & regni Siciliae", by Johannes de Arnono included, and the additions made by Pietro Follerio (-1588), first published in Neapel in 1557. Here issued by Johann Ruland. Reprints were made in 1628, 1650 and 1660.